MITCHELL SOJDEHEI

msojdehei@gmail.com

 

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SUMMARY

Mr. Sojdehei is an IT Solutions Architect/Manager/Director and Big Data Scientist with Certified Hadoop, Storage, Cloud, Database, OpenStack, and Virtualization experience.  Experience with BigData, HDFS, Amazon AWS, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Platform, Redhat CloudForms, Amazon RedShift (Columnar DataWarehouse), PGBouncer(PostGreSql Connection Pooler), Podium Data(BigData Analytics), Apache AirFlow(CronJobs Scheduler), MicroStrategy (Analytics), Tableau(Reporting), MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Kafka, PIG, Ceph Object Storage, Ceph Block Storage, Ceph FileSystem, OpenStack (Platform7, RHEL OSP7, Director, Errata), Mirantis (Kilo, Sahara, Kubernetes, Fuel), CloudForms, LXC Containers, Docker.io Containers, Docker Links, Docker Compose, Docker Orchestration (Kubernetes, Swarm), Google Borg(Large scale Clustering), Bamboo for scheduling Docker Builds, Platform9, Cloudstack, Nebula, and Rackspace including architecting for Big Data, Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments. Experience with design and automation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Environment as a Service(EaaS) including virtual networks, virtual machines, cloud services, web sites, and data services. Experience using Cloud Foundry OSS, BUSH, Ruby, Go.  Experience with Chef, ChefDK, Puppet, Puppet Manifests, and Ruby programing.  Experience with scripting, developing, and reverse engineering Big Data. Development experience using Hadoop HDFS, Spark Streaming using Cloudera, Data Analytics, Mahout Machine Learning, and code debugging.  Experience using RESTful APIs, PowerShell, Python, Scala, Perl, Ruby, C, C#, Java, Go, and WFA scripting.  As storage expert, heavy experience with Storage Array Clusters, Cloning, Snapshots, Mirroring, and Replicatioin.  Experience with VMWare Datastores, VMWare VMotion.  Experience with Oracle, DB2, Sqlserver, and MySql.  Experience with CIFS Administration. Managed and participated in numerous escalations and Root Cause Analysis Projects while at IBM, NetApp, Lockheed, NASA-JPL, AT&T, and numerous other large scale enterprises.  Also, participated in EMC Architecture projects including architecting EMC XtremIO.

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

•         Data Center Management

•         Chef, ChefDK, Ruby

•         Nagios\OpsView

•         RedHat CloudForms and Containers

•         RedShift, PGBouncer

•         Podium Data.

•         Ceph Object Storage Clustering, Crush rules, RADOS,  LIBRADOS, RADOSGW, RBD, CEPH FS

•         EMC ScaleIO Block Storage

•         Ruby, RubyOnRails

•         Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, GitHub

•         Graphte, Grafana scalable realtime graphing

•         Scala Math Libs, Algebird, Spire

•         Storm, Kafka

•         Scala Scalding, Cascading

•         Non parametric inference, Asymptotic Theory, Causality, Machine Learning, Statistical Methodology

•         Reinforcement learning, Optimization, and Machine decision making.

•         Statistical Sparcity, Sparse Structures

•         Cloud Foundry, BUSH, Ruby, Go

•         Java, Java Script, C, C++, HTML, HTML5, XML, PowerShell

•         NetBeans IDE, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio

•         ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash, Kafka

•         CI Tools: Electric Commander, LSF, GitLab, GitLab CI

•         Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Hue, Impala, Apache Drill, MapReduce, Cloudera

•         Google Big Query (Dremel) experience.

•         Hadoop machine learning with Mahout learning algorithms.

•         Hadoop MapReduce Unit testing using MRUnit, ApprovalTests.

•         Hadoop for Windows Azure using HDInsight and HortonWorks Data Platform for Windows

•         Hadoop D3.js for Visualization of MapReduce data including HeatMap and Animated charts/graphs.

•         Apache Ranger (Decentralized Data Security)

•         Ember.js for Ambiguous Web Applications

•         Hadoop Data Scientist: Text Mining, Index Building, Patterns, Graphs, Filtering, Predictions, Risk Analysis, RegExp patterns.

•         Hadoop SDK experience.

•         Puppet, Puppet Manifests 

•         Code debugging and log reverse engineering skills

•         OpenStack KVM 

•         OpenStack Cinder, OpenStack Liberty, DevStack

•         Platform9 Managed OpenStack

•         VMWare,Vcenter,Vsphere,VMotion, VCops

•         SolidFire Storage Arrays SF2405, SF4805

•         Pure Storage Arrays

•         Nimble Storage Arrays

•         Storage RESTful APIs, S3, Swift

•         Cloudstack RESTful APIs

•         RESTful JSON API with Ember.js experience.

•         NetApp CDOT and 7Mode experience.

•         Storage Clusters, Vservers, VFilers setup.

•         Storage Non Disruptive Upgrade.

•         Storage OnCommand Unified Manager setup and training.

•         Data Center Disaster Recovery Planning.

•         Storage Raid and Helix Data Protection

•         HDS Storage, HiCommand, HP Data Protector

•         Commvault

•         IBM DS8000, V9000 All Flash Arrays

•         3PAR StoreSrv 8000 Series, Adaptive Flash Cache, Adaptive Optimization, Storage Federation and Replication.

•         Dell Compellent and Equilogic

•         Storage Data Storage performance tuning.

•         Oracle  Disaster Recovery Planning.

•         VSphere, VirtualPC, Citrix.

•         Database Storage tuning.

•         MongoDB, CouchBase, Cassandra

•         Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Erwin

•         SAN expertise.

•         LUN Design Layout and Architecture expertise.

•         Virtualization expertise.

•         V-Series expertise.

•         Exchange(SME)

•         Share-point (SM-sharepoint)

•         Virtual Infrastructure(SMVI)

•         Escalations engineering expertise.

•         EMC XtremIO

•         EMC Solutions Architectrue and Planning

•         Oracle Golden Gate.

•         Oracle 10g RAC on SAN design expertise.

•         Veritas SAN expertise.

•         SAN and NAS Design Layout expertise.

•         SAP on NetApp  and 3PAR Storage

•         SAP Oracle BRTools implementation and production support.

•         Veritas LUN Storage Layout and Architecture.

•         MySql, MySqlWorkBench, SqlLite, MongoDB, CouchBase, Cassandra

•         Oracle  data migration.

•         Oracle Golden Gate.

•         Oracle Replication and monitoring.

•         Oracle ASM and RAC installation and implementation.

•         Oracle Data Warehousing, Data Modeling and in all aspect of Database Management Systems.

•         Oracle RAC ASM and RMAN Installation, implementation and planning

•         Oracle RAC Database Development, Database Administration and Production Support.

•         Data Center Architect / Senior Production and Development ORACLE and SQL Server Database Administrator SQL Server to Oracle data migration.

•         Data Center migration.

•         Oracle RAC (Real Applications Cluster) support.

•         Oracle RMAN (Recovery Manager).

•         Oracle Performance and Tuning/Tracing/debugging (Stats pack Utility or AWR Report)

•         Oracle RMAN Backup and Recovery.

•         Oracle RAC (including Interconnects), Grid technologies, Data guard, and Data Streams.

•         Oracle Change Data Capture and Oracle Streams experience.

•         Partitioning (Oracle Partitioning and Quest Partition Magic)

•         Business Objects (Crystal Reports).

•         Setup of FireWire based shared storage on red hat Linux for Oracle RAC 10g.

•         Setup storage on Suse Linux for Oracle RAC 10g.

•         Programmer (Java, J2EE, C/C++, C#, SQL; T-SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, Scala, Python, Korn, Bash, CMD PowerShell Scripting).

•         Oracle SAP, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle database installation and support.

•         DB2 UDB Database Administration.

•         MySql DB Administration and sql scripting.

•         OLAP, Data Warehousing, Building data marts and rollups, Data Mining, Data Clustering, Time Series, Sequence Clustering, Association Rules, Neural Networks, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression

•         Microsoft Sql Server Analysis Services (SSAS), visual Studio Data Mining Structures, Models, Correlations, Cubes, Dimensions.

•         IBM Cognos, Cognos Analytics

•         Oracle BPEL – Business Process Execution Language for e-business process integration .

•         Content DB Management through BPEL using Oracle.

•         Application Server(Web-Sphere, Web-Logic, IIS)

•         UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS) and WINDOWS system administration, including clustered systems.

•         Experience with Amazon EC2 Virtual Server Hosting

•         Rational ClearCase.

•         7 years experience in Healthcare Industry

•         8 years experience Telecom Industry

•         Experience facilitating large-scale Data Center migration including script conversion, technical innovations, staff development, negotiation and coordination with many diverse people

•         Big Data, Cloud Foundry, BUSH, Scale out Clustering

•         Palo Alto Networks, Arista, Cisco, Juniper, F5 Load Balancing

 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Current SkillsYearsExp.Including

Hadoop Big Data10MapReduce, Cloudera, HortonWorks

AmazonWebServices(AWS)10EMR, S3, RedShift, PGBouncer, DynamoDB,

Glacier, RDS, EC2 

RedHat CloudForms3manage containers Virtual, Private, Public

Oracle DBA and MySql DBA10 ASM, and RAC experience

NetApp and 3PAR Storage Architect10 NetApp Cluster Mode, E-Series.

OCI, RESTful API, WFA10

DataCenter Experience 10

Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark10 MapReduce Optimization, Spark Streaming

Data Center Migrations, Replication,10

Python, Scala, Java15

Oracle Golden Gate8Oracle. SqlServer, DB2

DB25IBM AIX

Sybase2

SQL Server DBA8(T-SQL Scripting, Replication 64 bit windows 2003 Server)                                                                      8

T-SQL Scripting7 (SQL Server T-SQL scripting)

UNIX System Administration10(RHEL, CentOS, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX)

Chef/ChefDK/Ruby Poppet10 Ruby 5 yrs.   Puppet 3 yrs.

Chef/ChefDK development 5

SQL Programming10 (incl. Optimization, Profiling and Trace Analysis)

PL/SQL Programming10

Scala and Python10

Perl Scripting10

Java/J2EE, HTML, XML, Ruby, RubyOnRail, JavaScript, JSON7

(WebSphere managed and container j2EE Programming), JSON, Java Script

RESTful APIs, 3SolidFire, NetApp, OCI, 3PAR, OpenStack, CloudStack                                                        3

Cloud Foundry (Paas)3

KORN Shell Programming10

BASH Shell Programming10 

C/C++, Eclipse10

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

IT Solutions Architect/Manager and AWS EMR Solutions Architect/Big Data Scientist

IIS-Software, Inc. @ Nike HQ in Portland, OR

Jan 2016 to present

Teradata/Informatica migration to AWS/EMR Cluster:

·   Architected and Converted informatica ETL jobs to Spark and SparkSQL scripts to be ran on Amazon Elastic MapReduce Clusters. Used Elastic Search, Kibana, LogStash, and Kafka.

·   Architected and Migrated Teradata Schema to RedShift and created Master DB on RedShift replacing Teradata and Informatica.

·   Architected and Developed Scala program with imbedded Elastic Search, Kibana, Kafka calls.

·   Architected and Developed Spark and SparkSql scripts to migrate data from Teradata into AWS-RedShift. 

·   Architected and Developed Sqoop scripts to pool data from Teradata into RedShift. 

·   Architected and Developed custom Apache AirFlow jobs to schedule ETL jobs written in SparkSql. 

·   Architected and Developed PGBouncer connection pooling data between PostGresSQL and RedShift.

·   Architected and Developed Custom Python Scripts with embedded Sqoop and Spark calls.  Used PySpark, Scala, Python-shell.

·   Architected and Managed Containers Virtual, Private, Public using RedHat CloudForms.

 

IT Solutions Architect/Manager and Data Scientist  

IIS-Software, Inc. @ NetApp, EMC, SolidFire, Lockheed-NASA-JPL, AT&T, ExxonMobil, CDW, SunGard, PayPal, Ebay, RackSpace, Pure 

San Jose, CA                                   

Nov 2010 to present

•         Involved in Pre-sales and Post-sales Data Center Architecting and implementation of storage SaaS arrays including Non-Disruptive upgrade.

•         Architected and developed Scala programs with embedded Elastic Search calls.

•         Architected and developed Scala programs with embedded CookBooks using ChefDK for 500 up to 2000 hosts

•         Architected and developed Scala/Python programs with embedded Puppet manifests using Puppet Enterprise for over 2000 hosts.

•         Certified Instructor/motivator and executive management experience over technical and business resources numbering over hundreds.

•         Developed customer relationships and advised customer technical resources on software/hardware purchases, architecture, and future vision drivers.

•         As Big Data Architect developed Hadoop MapReduce chaining in Java Programs and deployment using Cloudera Enterprise.

•         As Big Data Scientist wrote HDFS and MapReduce programs for Hadoop clusters with near 500 nodes, and used Cloudera environments for deployment and monitoring of clusters.

•         Developed resources to setup and administer MySql, Cognos, and Cassandra Databases for NetApp OCI, and 3PAR product lines. 

•         Developed RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.  Developed and Delivered technical product demonstrations, and Proof of Concept (POC).  Setup virtual Storage, Vservers, Snapshots, Clones, Backups, Vaults, Replication, Mirrors, and Syc-Mirrors. 

•         Worked as Instructor and Implementation Architect on SolidFire, NetApp, EMC, and Pure Storage Arrays.  Also, Installed and Setup NetApp, EMC, Pure, SolidFire, and Nimble Storage Arrays. 

•         Worked on projects for IBM clients as Storage Architect including companies such as Genentech, and Hertz. 

•         Worked on a clustered Hadoop for Windows Azure using HDInsight and HortonWorks Data Platform for Windows.  And, Continuous deployment using GIT in Azure App Service. 

•         Worked on projects at: PayPal, Yahoo, Ebay, Cisco, AMD, Agilent, BlueCoat, Bunge, Genentech, Apple, Finisar, Formfactor, Saber, and Globe Intl, ExxonMobil, AT&T, Expedia, Bechtel, CDW, Gilead, Amgenj, Ebay, RackSpace among others. Expert level NetApp data storage architect using OnCommand Insight(OCI) and MySql DB including Cassandra DB, OCI REST APIs, Cognos, SnapCenter, WorkFlow Automation(WFA), and OnCommand Unified Manager(OCUM). 

•         Worked with NetApp customers for migrations and data-layout on NetApp Arrays connecting to Unix, Linux, and Windows Servers. 

•         Developed Adaptive Quality of Service (QOS) solutions using WFA, REST APIs, Python scripts, Perl scripts, Graphite scalable realtime graphing, and PowerShell scripts. 

•         As Data Architect, developed Storage for best performance and high availability, and Disaster Recovery.  Setup Pure Storage Arrays, Setup SolidFire All Flash Storage Arrays. 

•         Also, setup HDS HiCommand, and used HDS HiCommand CLI scripts to automate monitoring and automated HDS storage arrays.  IBM Cognos experience.

•         Developed PaaS Cloud solutions using Cloud Foundry, OSS, Ruby and Go scripting. 

 

Key Accomplishments:

IT Solutions Architect and also Data Scientist responsible for multi-million dollar Enterprise Class Projects.   Primary resource for project devops design, planning, and implementation of extremely large Data Analytics, both local and remote. Worked with vendors on design, integration, test, and production of new technologies.  I was repeatedly requested to participate in customer facing meetings involving PaaS, Cloud Foundry implementation, and POCs for capabilities in a variety of technical solutions in multiple industry sectors. Ability to work with people of any personality and sway negative people toward objective. The key Architect for IT solutions and Data Analytics.  As Hadoop Architect successfully wrote, deployed and monitored dozens of Hadoop clusters using  HDFS, MapReduce, Spark Streaming, and Cloudera Enterprise. 

IT Solutions Architect Executive and Data Scientist (TopGun Project)

IBM Global Services, Storage Architect Level 3  

Los Angeles, CA             

April 2010 – Nov 2010

•         Worked with IBM customers and managed Amgen and Hertz accounts for all Data Center Storage Design and Architecture.

•         Architected and developed Chef CookBooks and recipies.

•         Architected and developed Puppet manifests using Puppet Enterprise for over 500 hosts.

•         Managed design and implementation of new production databases on IBM N-series Storage. Managed Volume/LUN Layouts.

•         Managed Veritas LUN Layout. Used Database Server monitoring and capacity management (Quest Spot-light, Net-IQ).

•         Reverse engineered DB2 databases and convesion of schema to Oracle and allocated LUNs on N-Series Storage.

•         Worked MySql DB setup for NetApp OCI. Creation and maintenance of Oracle with Golden Gate and Oracle RAC databases on EMC and NetApp Storage.

•         Implementation of Oracle database on IBM AIX, Solaris, and Linux on IBM, Amazon EC2 Virtual Hosting, Ubuntu, CentOS, EMC, and NetApp Storage.

•         Design and implemented Oracle to manage business process integration on EMC and NetApp Storage. Design and implemented SAP Oracle BRTools on IBM DS8000, EMC and NetApp Storage Appliance. Design and implemented Oracle Veritas Cluster and wrote shell scripts for NetApp backup/recovery. Managed DB content using Oracle Grid Control NetApp Plug-in and SnapManager for Oracle.

•         Oracle and PL/SQL script tuning for NetApp Storage. 

•         Also, worked with Mazda IT Vendor to implement Dell Compellent tiered storage solution for Virtualization.  Used Compellent 5.1 and 5.4 Storage Center for increased scale and better performance. 

 

Key Accomplishments:

Technical Manager/Presales Executive for enterprise and corporate accounts from sales initial discussions, project overview, performance planning, and configuration to Proof of Concept and final RFP/RFQ and customer contract agreement and signature. Heavy experience with internal/external customer issues, and root cause problem resolution. Focused on end-to-end Data Governance over all type servers, storage systems, software, virtualization, and networking solutions per customer business requirements. Very heavy focus on OpenStack as well as BSD, Linux, and UNIX based environments.  Worked with all Medium-Large customers and local/remote SEs on problems and solutions including onsite analysis and recommendations.

 

Southwest Airlines, Dallas Texas                                             

Aug 2009 to May 2010

Senior IT Solutions Architect and Data Scientist

•         Worked on Non-Disruptive Upgrades (NDU) of NetApp Storage, and worked on Data Center migrations.  Worked on tuning and performance enhancements of two 4 node 4TB production databases. 

•         Worked on Daily MySql DBA tasks involving management of all production, QA, Dev databases over 38 TB in size. 

•         Developed scripts for RMAN backups.  Developed scripts for MySql backups.  Developed GridCntrl jobs to run RMAN backups in place of cron. 

•         Worked on setup of MySql and Oracle RAC srvctl and CRS, voting disk.  Worked on setup of DataGuardBroker to automate fast failover. Worked on setup of DataBuardBroker using GridCntrol to monitor DG performance. 

•         Worked with the Linux Admin to fine tune OS settings per recommendations on Mysql. Worked extensively on debugging using Oracle Metrics and Policies threshold settings. Worked extensively on debugging Oracle RAC OCR environments and in conjunction with Oracle Golden gate.

 

Southernwine & Spirits, FL             

Feb 2009 to Aug 2009

Senior Storage and Database Solutions Architect (Oracle-SAP) and Data Scientist

•         Worked on tuning and performance enhancements for a 7TB SAP production database.

•         Worked on Non-disruptive upgrades of NetApp OS, and worked on migration of Oracle 1og RAC from Solaris9 and solaris 10 and AIX to Linux Red Hat VM Oracle 11g for development and QA test environments on NetApp Storage.

•         Worked extensively with the Storage Architect designing and architecting Oracle 11g Virtualization environment on NetApp Storage.

•         Setup and tested Oracle 11g VM on NetApp Storage. Used SAP OSS Notes to verify Oracle settings per SAP recommendations for NetApp storage.

•         Worked on Daily DBA tasks involving management of all production, QA, Dev databases of over 28 TB in size. Developed scripts for RMAN backup using cron. Developed GridCntrl jobs to run RMAN backups in place of cron.

•         Worked on setup of DataGuardBroker to automate fast failover. Worked on setup of DataBuardBroker using GridCntrol to monitor DG performance.

•         Worked extensively with the SAP team on performance tuning, index builds, and SAP recommendations. Worked with both NetApp and IBM DS5300 storage team to fine tune LUNs and file system layouts related to SAP and Oracle.

•         Worked with the AIX and Solaris Admins to fine tune OS settings per recommendations on Oracle Metalink and SAP OSS notes.

•         Worked on Oracle Streams – Capture – Replicaiton – Propegate to replicate specific tables, tablespaces and whole database.

•         Worked on Oracle Golden Gate to replicate data across heterogeneous databases (from Oracle to SqlServer, MySQL). Worked extensively on debugging using Oracle Metrics and Policies threshold settings. Worked extensively on debugging Oracle RAC OCR environments and in conjunction with Oracle Streams usage.

 

 

 

Network Appliance – Sunnyvale, CA                      

Oct 2005 – Feb 2009

Senior NetApp Storage Architect / Database Storage Solutions Architect / Data Scientist 

•         Implemented NetApp Snapshot, SnapMirror, FlexClone, FlexShare, SnapVault for Oracle.

•         While at NetApp worked on projects at: Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Cisco, AMD, Agilent, BlueCoat, Bunge, Genentech, Apple, Finisar, Formfactor, Saber, and Globe Intl among others. Expert NetApp data storage architect using SnapManager for Oracle, SMSAP, SAP, SqlServer, Virtualization, and Operations Manager(DFM).

•         Worked with NetApp customers for all oracle 10g and 11g migrations from Solarisxx to Linux Oracle VM.

•         Worked with NetApp customers for all Oracle 10g migrations from AIX to Oracle 11g Linux VM. Design and implementation of new product databases on Network Appliance Storage. Design and implement NetApp and 3PAR Volumes/LUNs Layout.

•         Design and implement Veritas LUNs over NetApp and 3PAR Storage.   Automated error notification on NetApp and 3PAR Storage. Storage tuning on NetApp and 3PAR storage.  Storage analysis and allocation on NetApp and 3PAR Arrays.   Volume/LUN recovery best practices on NetApp and 3PAR Storage Arrays.

Key Accomplishments:

Pre-Sales supporting local and remote sales teams. My Sales Rep has exceeded quota the last two years and made club with over 15.5M in sales. Our accounts extended from coast to coast with some HQ locally. Working with multiple partners to present Netapp 7-mode, Clustered Data Ontap(CDOT), and Cisco Flexpod solutions to companies in our business vertical. Besides the clustering technologies, I also present and sale the E-Series past Engenio storage line including the new EF540/550. Worked directly with customer’s end users ranging from Healthcare to Service Providers, etc… Traveled as needed nationally as requested. Have worked and sold Data Solutions for SAN, NAS, I-SCSI, Fiber Channel, SSD, and Flash storage projects, very good with competitive storage assessments when competing with other vendors.  Regained lost sales to Oklahoma region in first year of focusing on that market. Sales and clients renewed with company since they were lost years earlier to other companies. Worked accounts including National banking, fortune 500, HealthCare, oil and gas industry, major department chains, major phone companies, and defense contractors. Represented company at Trade Show events and seminars.

 

IMcKesson Health Care Systems                          

Dec 2004 to Oct 2005

•         Design and implementation of new product databases.  Have gained experience using Data Warehousing Tools i.e. Informatica 6.1, Business Object, Erwin. Reverse engineering of SQL Server database and conversion of schema to Oracle.

•         Used Database Server monitoring and capacity management (Quest Spot-light, Net-IQ). Reverse engineering of DB2 database and conversion of schema to Oracle. Creation and maintenance of DB2 database.  Implementation of DB2 database on IBM AIX. Design and implemented Oracle BPEL to manage business process integration. Managed DB content using Oracle BPEL Process Management.  

 

IIS-Software Precision Software, Inc. Dallas,TX)                  

Nov 2003 to Dec 2004

Senior DBA / DBA Manager:

•         Helped build and support a local software team to reduce cost, time to market, and significantly increase quality of releases, and upgrade of SQL Server databases.

•         Data Warehousing Skills Design, Implementation & Data Modeling using ETL Tools Version Informatica 6.2, Business Object 5.5, ERWin.

•         Standardized database software releases and install procedures and wrote automation to install releases off-hours.

•         Developed database software release installation standards for both SQL Server and Oracle databases based on company guidelines on naming conventions and past experience with releases.

•         Developed three standardized levels of release for Sybase install automation including hand installs, SQL controlled installs and fully automated installs, documentation, templates and examples for each, to cover every install requirement.

•         Fully automated install program (Perl) is platform independent, schedulable, network aware and Oracle aware, and can be adapted to run almost any processes including RPC processes.

•         Thorough documentation set, including online documentation provided in the program, MS Word documentation and HTML documentation suitable for intranet use.

•         Supported development, project management and business analyst teams in addition to supporting high-volume call center, production database, archives database (data warehouse), training and multiple test environments.

•         Subject matter expert for SQL Server and Oracle, database installs, database logical and physical structure, storage allocation. Application development support to programmers on all aspects of SQL Server and Oracle database programming.

•         Responsible for all software release installs to test, training and production databases for both SQL Server and Oracle. Responsible for maintenance and improvement of production, archive Oracle database. Responsible for data refreshes for production, development and training databases.

 

IIS-Software (SABRE Airline Solutions – Dallas / Ft. Worth)      

Dec 2001 to Nov 2003

DBA Manager / Production DBA

•         Helped build and support an Airlines Reservations Systems for Norwegian Airlines to reduce cost, time to market of a portal and upgrade of Oracle databases. 

•         Facilitated Data Modeling meeting with user groups to gather business requirements.

•         Converted all business requirements in to an Entity Relational Diagram using Erwin Data Modeling Tool. Worked with DBA and User groups to ensure Database Integrity checks are in place and functional.  Fine-tuned all queries to optimize database performance.

•         Standardized database software releases and install procedures and wrote automation to install releases off-hours. 

•         Developed database software release installation standards for both SQL Server and Oracle databases based on company guidelines on naming conventions and past experience with releases.

•         Fully automated install program (Perl) is platform independent, schedulable, network aware and Oracle aware, and can be adapted to run almost any processes including RPC processes.

IIS – Software (MCI/WorldCom, Inc.)                                                                                       Nov 1999 to Dec 2001

UNIX/Oracle System Administration

·   Primarily tasked with replication of hospital production Oracle databases to create fresh test environments

·   Developed software to monitor Oracle database storage usage and warn of impending  issues

·   Designed and implemented custom Oracle database extension for hospital customer

·   Supported new product rollout on-site at hospital; troubleshoot user issues and gather user suggestions

Key Accomplishments

·   Administered Oracle 7.x and 8.x on AIX and HPUX platforms at multiple hospital emergency room installations.

·   Designed and implemented new custom database.

                                                                                                                                                      

IIS-Software (IBM – Dallas)                                                                   April  1998 to Nov 1999

Technical Staff/Consultant

·   Primarily tasked with building test program for IBM's new Fast Connect SMB Server running on AIX OS.  Built the successful program from scratch, including development and implementation of principle test cases.

·   Secondary tasks included participation in test lab procedures: OS installs, network and application troubleshooting.

·   Site Manager for DCI at IBM; UNIX trainer for DCI staff development courses.

Key Accomplishments

·   Created a robust and successful client-server system test program from scratch using a variety of client components to thoroughly test a server message block (SMB) server running on AIX.                                                                                                                                                          

 

CERTIFICATES:     

NetApp NCDA Certification, NetApp NCDA SAN Certification

NetApp University Certified Instructor/Trainer 

EMC Certified Storage Arcchitect

GitHub Developer Incubator.

OpenStack Foundation Incubator Sponsor.

 

 

EDUCATION: 

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems @ Devry University. 1996